[jsword-devel] Building on Bible Desktop: BibleBlogs.Net

Tue Feb 14 14:14:32 MST 2006

Ok, I'll work on it some more this week.  Glad to hear things are moving
along.

Don

On 2/14/06, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Don,
>     How are you coming with putting finishing touches on Journaling. I'd
> like to finish it up and release it. I have some bug fixes that should
> be released. So I am eager to do a release.
> In His Service,
>     DM
>
> Don Brown wrote:
> > Cool!  Good to hear you integrated it so quickly.  Actually, I don't
> > use Netbeans at all, as those artifacts were left over from Dave's
> > code.  In fact, I've already spent some time cutting out the generated
> > GUI code in favor of that GriddedPanel class.  Personally, I use vim
> > and jEdit, although I'm trying Eclipse out for the first time with
> > this project.  I've always actively avoided IDEs but the way this
> > project works so well with them, I'm giving them another chance.
> >
> > Sure, all those changes sound fine.  I'll send you the blogapps zip
> > and look over the changes tomorrow.  The blogapps code isn't forked,
> > just not released since Dave's book hasn't hit production yet.
> > Finally, I have been using the svn repo since you switched (thank
> > you!) so we should be on the same page.
> >
> > Don
> >
> > On 1/19/06, *DM Smith* <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com
> > <mailto:dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Don,
> >
> >     I've checked in your code. The code that you have is most
> >     excellent and
> >     I am looking forward to putting it in front of users! Thanks so
> >     much for
> >     your contribution! Once we have it ready for release, we'll
> >     announce it
> >     for people to look at it from the nightly and respond to their
> >     comments.
> >     Then we'll release!
> >
> >     I have made some simple changes to quite CheckStyle. We have it set
> up
> >     that if you run ant against build.xml in jsword-web that it will
> >     build
> >     all the projects related to BibleDesktop and also the web. And
> >     then run
> >     a series of QA checks. You can do this from the command line in
> >     the root
> >     of jsword-web. The pertinent commands are:
> >     ant all (does a clean, build, install, check)
> >     ant incremental (does a clean, build, install, check)
> >     ant checkstyle (runs only checkstyle, but it only works after a
> >     build.)
> >
> >     And I made two other changes. I already mentioned that I moved
> >     code from
> >     StatusBar into Desktop. The other change was that I used a "Type
> safe
> >     enumeration" pattern for the type of Blog, called appropriately
> >     BlogType.
> >
> >     I hope that my changes and the huge refactoring job that I did,
> >     did not
> >     get in your way.
> >
> >     Below are some more things that probably should be done to make it
> >     similar to the rest of the code.
> >
> >     Don Brown wrote:
> >     > Cool, yeah, I've started doing the same, going through and
> cleaning
> >     > things up.  The GUI code has tons of errors for two main reasons:
> >     >  * Still not 100% sure how you solve localization, so there are
> >     a lot
> >     > of labels and error messages still in the code
> >     As noted before, we use the Msg class for localization of messages.
> I
> >     took care of that for you. I also marked strings that didn't need
> >     to be
> >     localized.
> >     As to error messages, we use the o.c.c.util.Reporter static
> informUser
> >     methods. Listeners for ReporterEvents will then handle the message
> >     appropriately. So we never print exceptions to std err. See
> >     o.c.b.desktop.DesktopActions for examples. We let listeners figure
> out
> >     the best way to communicate to the user. So we don't create and
> manage
> >     dialog boxes on the fly.
> >     >  * Most of that code was forked from the Blogapps code, where it
> >     was a
> >     > standalone Swing app.
> >     In doing the connection, it appears that you are doing it in the
> main
> >     thread. We have a Job class and a Progress meter that we use for
> long
> >     running background processes. See
> >     o.c.j.book.install.sword.AbstractSwordInstaller 's install method
> >     for a
> >     good example. Also see the documentation for JobManager.
> >
> >     I would appreciate it if you could provide blogapps-1.0-src.zip.
> >     Especially, if it is forked. In that case we may want to manage the
> >     forked source.
> >     > Furthermore, a lot of it was autogenerated by Netbeans.
> >     In localizing buttons, and other actionable things, we use
> >     o.c.c.swing.CWActions and o.c.c.swing.ActionFactory and an action
> >     property file. An example of this is DesktopActions.java and
> >     Desktop.properties. This is also a good example of splitting the
> >     responsibility of a complex screen into two classes. One for the
> >     GUI and
> >     the other for handling the events generated by that GUI.
> >
> >     The basic idea is that an ActionFactory will read the property
> >     file and
> >     construct CWAction objects. The ActionFactory will then dispense of
> >     CWActions by name. Also the ActionFactory and the CWAction work
> >     together
> >     to use reflection against a "bean" to call a "do" method constructed
> >     using the name of the action.
> >
> >     The reason that I mention this is that I don't think it fits well
> with
> >     Netbeans auto generated code. I left it alone so you could see if
> you
> >     could integrate it using NetBeans.
> >
> >     In His Service,
> >         DM
> >
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